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The Retail PulseFSP Retail Business ConsultantsOctober 2014

Retailer Births & Deaths

There were 0 administrations in October.

There were 15 new additions to the FSP Retailer Database in October, with 3 new retailers proposingto enter the UK market:Cardmarket, a value orientated standalone greetings card format being trialledby WH Smith; Nixon, having opened its second European location in London's Carnaby; and Update1, a low carb bistro deli planning UK expansion following the opening of its first outlet on WalthamstowHigh Street.

Retail Burn

This month, as usual, the big national chains attractthe most press. The most talked about retailers,according to the Retail Burn, include: Argos,Paperchase, Clarks, Booths Supermarkets,Holland & Barrett, G-Star, Homebase,Internacionale, Bijou Brigitte and Tesco plc.

The retailer with the highest number of positivenews articles in October was Argos, havingincreased half-year sales by 2.9% as it made goodprogress with its transformation plan.

Tesco plc is at the other end of the scale, with theSerious Fraud Office having now launched a formalcriminal probe following the discovery of a £263mhole in its profit expectations.

Hot 100

The Hot 100 in October 2014 included; Appointed new chief operating officer to overseeexpansion plans, B&M Acquired the intellectual property of Internaçionale,Edinburgh Woollen Mill Increasing its sales and on the hunt for more stores,Pets at Home Eyeing further stores in South America following its USsuccess, Ted Baker Increasing its sales and profits, Sunglass Hut Opening new stores in Maidstone and Sutton Coldfield,Fat Face Sales and profits on the up, Zara Home Opening at intu Bromley, Thomas Sabo

These sustainable businesses have substantial sales, ahealthy profit and have maintained good financial health.

Retail News Index

The FSP Retail News Index is a 3 month moving average measure of sentiment in reported retailnews stories.

The October RNI index for All Retailers, at 104, has decreased by 1. Leisure, at 114, has decreased by 4. Clothing & Footwear, at 96, has increased by 1. Household, at 107, has increased by 3. Personal, at 99, has decreased by 4. Grocery, at 103, has increased by 3. Food & Beverage, at 109, has increased by 1.

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FSP on average reviews over 350 unique items of retailer news. Each article is scored according tosentiment. RNI is the sum of these scores indexed against 2005 and averaged over a three monthperiod. The RNI time series for all retailers starts from May 2002.

Product Focus

DELVWith ever increasing amounts of data available, getting to the information that matters can sometimesbe a time consuming and complicated chore.

DELV (Data EnLivenment and Visualisation) is FSP’s data visualisation tool aimed at making the keyinformation that drives our analysis available whenever it is needed.

DELV is web based, making it accessible wherever you have an internet connection, containing bothcatchment information and shopping centre tenant information.

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